David Lynch directs more commercials, this time for Gucci’s fragrance, Gucci by Gucci. Featuring models Raquel Zimmerman, Natasha Poly and Freja Beha Erichsen, soundtrack backed by Blondie, naturally. Commercial shorts are quite suiting for Mr. Lynch, who seems to thrive with the large budgets and trying to plugin a feature-length story with his trademark style into every one he’s done.

Watching David Lynch work is always a hugely interesting trip, the smoking, the glassy-eyed look and the creepy finger twitches, I love it. DIVX has constructed a wonderful digital documentary with David Lynch describing his creative process using digital film, following him on-set of the production of his latest short film (a film which already looks quite odd). You’ll need the DIVX web player plugin (you should be asked to download it on page visit) to watch, but, it’s definitely worth it!

Watch it: David Lynch on digital film production

David Lynch is a true genius. Though he’s made some odd decisions at times, the man lives and breathes quirkiness and everytime I see him, I just imagine him actually being a resident of Twin Peaks. At the AFI Dallas 2007 film festival, Lynch was asked straight out how he feels about product placement in films, in exchange for budget support, his reply, classic.

Watch the interview in it’s entirety after the jump..

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Oh! Another David Lynch post! This time we’re taking a look at Twin Peaks, the loveable, yet darkly twisted serial from David Lynch and Mark Frost. Amazon has moved the release date for season 2 of Twin Peaks up a week to April 3rd, 2007. The DVD release, which many have been waiting for patiently for years now was looking bleak at one point, in what rumors pegged as copyright disputes. Paramount still lists the DVD coming April 10th, but hey, if it is the 10th, we’ve waited this long, we can wait another week.

Twin Peaks release date moved forward

David Lynch, one of the nerd’s favorite thinkers, has released his line of signature blend coffees, available exclusively through his webshop. All organic (naturally!), the line consists of 3 blends, “Organic Espresso”, “Organic House Roast” and “Organic French Roast Decaf”. The blends are a bit pricey (around $17 for 12oz of the Espresso blend), but a) you get coffee approved by David Lynch himself and b) a portion of the proceeds go to the David Lynch Film Scholarship Fund at the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies.

Drink more coffee: David Lynch signature blend coffee

The classic science fiction series Dune is one of the major bodies of work in the genre, having influenced many major movie and television films and countless science fiction novels in the time since it’s publishing in the mid-60s. One of the films to be heavily influenced by Dune was Star Wars, an influence that George Lucas is happy to admit to. Surprisingly, there were many homages to Dune in the early Star Wars scripts, though most of the Dune-like scenes were cut, there are still quite a few references in the final works which can easily be identified as clearly being influenced by Herbert’s magnificent work. Thanks to the mega-nerds at Star Wars Origins, there is an extremely informative piece on the history and influences behind Frank Herbert’s Dune and a detailed list of Dune references within the original Star Wars.

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Back when Twin Peaks was the hottest thing on television and ABC actually cared about marketing it, they showed this brief promo before Twin Peaks aired, hyping up the viewers before their minds were about to blown. Someone has thankfully found this promo and archived it, though no new bloopers or info about the show are on it, it’s still an interesting piece of retro television history, in VHS format.

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In 1968, David Lynch was just getting his hands dirty with experimental film and art, but was getting reluctant to continue working with film due to the high cost. His mind was changed when a fellow student saw Lynch’s paintings and offered the soon-to-be cult director, $1000 to create a similar film to Lynch’s “After Six Figures Getting Sick”. Lynch purchased a used Bolex camera and began filming, only to discover a few months later that the camera was defective, rendering his film useless. The film student told Lynch to keep the rest of the money and do whatever he’d like with it.

Around this time, Lynch’s wife, Peggy, told him of a dream she had, where her niece was reciting the alphabet in her sleep, woke up, then started bouncing around the room repeating the recital. Lynch ran with it, creating the haunting short, “The Alphabet”. When I say haunted, I mean it, I’ve seen it many times and I always get an icky feeling, maybe it’s just something about scary chanting children or the chilling soundtrack, featuring a newborn Jennifer Lynch crying, I can’t quite place it.

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When Sony launched the Playstation 2, they commisioned David Lynch to create two commercials for their Third Place campaign to be shown across Europe, in theaters and on television in some markets. I’m not quite sure if these were ever broadcast in the US or Canada, I certainly never remember seeing them on television. The commercials were shot in 2 days in 2000, with Lynch using the back of an envelope to check his list of shots and only taking a maximum of 2 takes per shot. Lynch worked with long-time collaborators Scott Dillups as camera operator, DOP, post production and John Neff to craft the sound design.

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A little over 10 years ago, 41 international directors were asked to create a short film using an original Cinematographe created by the Lumière Borthers in 1895, as part of the Lumière et compagnie project. Part of this group was the man we know and love, David Lynch, who by many accounts created the most inspiring short of all included. There were 3 rules involved with the making of the short, 1) The film must be under 52 seconds (possibly due to a technical limitation), 2) no synched sound was permitted, and 3) the directors were allowed no more than 3 takes. David Lynch’s short was titled, “Premonitions Following an Evil Deed” and featured 52 seconds of beautifully framed and filmed images, which even today feels fresh and exciting. I agree with the original poster, imagine what could have been created by Lynch if given more time and more stock in this format?

["Premonitions Following an Evil Deed" by Lynch at Google Video | Lumière Cinématographe at Wikipedia]